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Didn't realise his foot injury was that bad during the 2008 GF. Knew it ended his career and he never played again after a few years of trying but the description of it on the day was horrific.

They really skated over his time with Freo. 21 years old and he didn't see any drugs in the two years he was in Perth when Cousins and Gardiner were in their off field prime? Likely story.
 
He sounded incoherent regarding the police investigation stuff but overall he wasn't bad. Of the others that I've seen recently, I Matt Rendell was really good, and I thought Jack Trengove sounded like a nice guy, but I had to switch over, it was so boring. Just not much to talk about.
 

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Couldn't follow Croad's recollection of the off-field stuff. At first seemed reluctant to answer, and then when he realised he had to otherwise the episode would have gone for 14 minutes, skated all around it so much it didn't make sense. Not the great episode, but not Mike's fault this time. He had a guest who probably had a good story, but who baulked at telling it when he got to the hot-seat.
 
Why would you agree to go on an in depth interview show, where you know you will be asked uncomfortable questions and then skirt them?
 
Scotland said:
Didn't realise his foot injury was that bad during the 2008 GF. Knew it ended his career and he never played again after a few years of trying but the description of it on the day was horrific.

They really skated over his time with Freo. 21 years old and he didn't see any drugs in the two years he was in Perth when Cousins and Gardiner were in their off field prime? Likely story.
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I find the omission of anything drug-related during his days at Hawthorn just as surprising. Not that I judge him for it.
 
Sweet Jesus said:
I find the omission of anything drug-related during his days at Hawthorn just as surprising. Not that I judge him for it.
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Pot/kettle coming from A west-Coast supporter.....Recreational Drug-use At your club during that time is incontrovertible, yet you feel the need to try & tar my club with the same brush.....That Hawk chip on your shoulder is so bloody obvious.
 
Procrastinator35 said:
Pot/kettle coming from A west-Coast supporter
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Only if you're obsessed with a tired narrative about drugs being naughty and clubs needing to be shamed if one of their players puts something up their nose. I'm more pragmatic than that.

It's simply the case that Sheahan asked Croad about drugs and allowed him the space to deny that anything happened at Freo before steering the discussion back to his use of painkillers. If Sheahan really wanted to know about the use of recreational drugs, that would have been the time to press for an answer.

Procrastinator35 said:
Recreational Drug-use At your club during that time is incontrovertible, yet you feel the need to try & tar my club with the same brush.....That Hawk chip on your shoulder is so bloody obvious.
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I assume there has been recreational use at all clubs at various stages. I don't see it as a particular criticism of the club.

The bottom line is that Sheahan asked about it but appeared satisfied by an ambiguous, incomplete answer.

Look at your response. You're the one with the chip. I'm more or less unfussed by how players spend their downtime.
 
I bet they do the old media trick of misleading the interviewee a little, like: "nah, Mike might gloss over the off-field stuff, but we're more interested in your career and big trade to Freo", then, when he's under the bright lights, *bang*...."uh, um, er, well..no...um", etc. So they're not really prepared.
Being no rocket surgeon, Trent would've fallen for it.
It's just a guess :D
 
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I bet they do the old media trick of misleading the interviewee a little, like: "nah, Mike might gloss over the off-field stuff, but we're more interested in your career and big trade to Freo", then, when he's under the bright lights, *bang*...."uh, um, er, well..no...um", etc. So they're not really prepared.
Being no rocket surgeon, Trent would've fallen for it.
It's just a guess :D
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Not this one. Mike said to him in the interview about the off field issues "now you knew I was going to ask you about this". So it wasn't a bait and switch.
Mike didn't go very hard though, wasn't very dogged when Croad tried to deflect or play it down.
 

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Rod Stroker said:
Not this one. Mike said to him in the interview about the off field issues "now you knew I was going to ask you about this". So it wasn't a bait and switch.
Mike didn't go very hard though, wasn't very dogged when Croad tried to deflect or play it down.
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Croad was sweating bullets and could barely string a coherent sentence together. I think he felt sorry for him.
 
Scotland said:
Didn't realise his foot injury was that bad during the 2008 GF. Knew it ended his career and he never played again after a few years of trying but the description of it on the day was horrific.

They really skated over his time with Freo. 21 years old and he didn't see any drugs in the two years he was in Perth when Cousins and Gardiner were in their off field prime? Likely story.
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Yeah there's blatantly lying and then there's Croady denying he ever saw drugs in Perth. Please campaigner.
 
The bit I struggled with most was the preemptive sympathy and minimisation of trents post football ‘hiccups’, and the acceptance of his partial (and nonsensical) explanations without query.
 
SammyC said:
The bit I struggled with most was the preemptive sympathy and minimisation of trents post football ‘hiccups’, and the acceptance of his partial (and nonsensical) explanations without query.
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My take is he's not the brightest spark in the world and a dodgy physio/naturopath/clinic or sorts took advantage of that and his "Premiership player" profile and sent him off to be the drawcard and promote products that were not 100% and he got caught up in it
 
Big Bryza said:
Yeah there's blatantly lying and then there's Croady denying he ever saw drugs in Perth. Please campaigner.
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I don't care if he was a massive cokehead or a complete cleanskin, but everyone knows what went on in the early 2000s. It was the peak of recreational drug use from the perspective of clubs discouraging players from drinking and the lack of social media, smart phones etc. If iPhones and Facebook existed in 2002 there would have been a LOT of Jake Carlisle/Harley Bennell moments.
 

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Rod Stroker said:
Michael Roach tonight. Not sure what to expect. He hasn't done many interviews or media over the years..
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Met him a few times he’ll be good I reckon.
 
Watched the Roach one, thought it was fairly enjoyable and one of Sheahan's better interviews.

Thought wasn't necessary to go back to asking Roach at the end about goalkicking techniques when they'd spent several minutes at the start discussing it. And surprised that Sheahan didn't ask Roach why the side fell away so much post-82.

But he did ask Roach about his lack of goals in the 1980 finals after racing to a ton in the H&A matches which I'd always been curious about so credit to him on that. And the section about Terry Smith was genuinely moving.
 

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